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David Careers

Senior Backend Software Engineer, AI Observability & Evals Platform (LangSmith)

Posted 2 days ago

capitalgEast Boston (MA)
Software DevelopersComputer Systems Design Services

SENIORITY

Lead

SALARY

$170,000 per year

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About the role

Senior Backend Engineer This role is based onsite in Boston, MA. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Boston. In this role you will be building the backend systems that power LangSmith, LangChain's observability and evals platform. You will work on the core services that allow our customer's developer teams to monitor and evaluate their AI applications at scale. While the focus is on backend feature development, familiarity with fullstack or frontend engineering, performance tuning, and debugging production issues would be valuable.
What You'll Do: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs to support LangSmith's tracing, monitoring, and evaluation workflows. Collaborate on architectural decisions to ensure systems are performant and maintainable. Optimize storage and query performance for high-volume observability and evaluation data. Ensure system reliability through strong testing, monitoring, and alerting practices. Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, performing root-cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes. Create and maintain technical documentation, including system design and API references. Work closely with full-stack engineers, product managers, and product designers on rolling out new features.
What You'll Bring:
  • 4+ years of professional experience in backend engineering working on highly complex products
  • Proficiency in one or more backend languages/frameworks, ideally Python and/or GoStrong understanding of API design and building reliable data services.
  • Experience with high-throughput, mission-critical systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to optimize backend services for performance and reliability.
  • Experience with database systems (Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) would be a bonus.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
  • Customer centricity and ownership mentality
Annual salary range: $170,000- $235,000 Compensation Philosophy: We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks. We are hiring for this role across a range of scope, and the compensation band reflects that. Your offer depends on what we learn about your impact, craft, leadership, and communication during the interview process. We will tell you early where you're tracking and talk comp with you before offer stage. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.

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